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Table 1 Baseline clinical and pathological characteristics of patients with DTC

From: Comparison of the prognostic value of AJCC cancer staging system 7th and 8th editions for differentiated thyroid cancer

  

Mean ± SD or Number (%)

Age

 

64 ± 11.3

 

< 45

64 (26)

 

45–55

55 (22)

 

≥55

126 (52)

Sex

Female

223 (91)

 

Male

22 (9)

Pathology

PTC

224 (91)

 

FTC

19 (7.8)

 

Hurthle

2 (1.2)

Tumor size (cm)

≤1

65 (26)

 

1--2

76 (31)

 

≥2--4

79 (32)

 

≥4

22 (9)

Microscopic extrathyroidal extension

 

56 (23)

Gross extrathyroidal extension

 

19 (8)

T3b

 

3 (16)

T4a

 

16 (84)

Cervical LN metastases

 

38 (15)

Distant metastases

Total number

6 (3)

 

lung

4 (66)

 

bone

2 (34)

Initial surgical extent

Lobectomy

8 (6)

 

Total thyroidectomy

235 (96)

 

Biopsy

2 (2)

RAI treatment

 

171 (70)

  1. Abbreviations: DTC differentiated thyroid cancer, PTC papillary thyroid cancer, FTC follicular thyroid cancer, LN lymph nodes, RAI radioactive iodine, SD standard deviation